The first sparks of the idea of museum lessons, dilemma and Anton Slomšek’s Sunday school Cover Image

Prve iskrice zamisli o muzejskih učnih urah, dileme in Slomškova nedeljska šola
The first sparks of the idea of museum lessons, dilemma and Anton Slomšek’s Sunday school

Author(s): Branko Šuštar
Subject(s): Education, Museology & Heritage Studies, History of Education, State/Government and Education, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Sociology of Education
Published by: Slovenski šolski muzej
Keywords: museum lessons; schooling; politics; Sunday school; Slomšek;

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the beginnings of the idea of museum lessons in 1995, with two examples from abroad and the later model cooperation between the City Museum and the Slovenian School Museum in 1997 with the exhibition about the mayor Ivan Hribar. From late 1998, innovative historical presentations of lessons at the Slovenian School Museum gradually presented three main time periods in the development of Slovenian schooling. The exhibitions also dealt with these periods, including the activities of the bishop and pedagogue Anton Martin Slomšek (1800-1862) (the exhibition Pedagogical Views on A. M. Slomšek, 1999). After 1945, Slomšek was generally not talked about, but this was not the case at the museum of education. The article follows the development of museum lessons that presented examples of teaching in Slovenian schools in three different countries – during the period prior to World War One, the period between 1918-1941 and after 1945. From 2006, the series of historical lessons no longer includes the museum lesson from the Yugoslav socialist period, but there is a lively selection from all the periods prior to 1941. Among them is the lesson Sunday Repetition School from 1865, which since 2009, on the basis of popular Slomšek’s schoolbook Blaže in Nežica v nedeljski šoli, presents a lesson prior to the modernisation of primary schooling after 1870. The article also poses the question of how well the images of Blaže and Nežica illustrate Slovenian pupils and school in the 19th century

  • Issue Year: 29/2020
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 387-402
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Slovenian
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